Four new sites designated Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems for innovation, sustainability and adaptability

FAO leader hails role of agriculture in national pledges, applauds the promise to scale up funding

Mountain people under double pressure of climate change and growing food insecurity

Expansion in food trade must support national and global food security objectives, FAO report says

Germany provides an additional €5 million to support to joint effort

FAO and EU Naval Force deploy 25 Fish-Aggregating Devices in a bid to boost local fisheries, improve nutrition, reduce piracy

Immediate provision of seed, fertilizer, tools, and animal feed is needed

Governing body endorses budget and focus on cross-cutting themes such as nutrition

Population growth, industrialization and climate change threaten soil health

Responds to call by G20 agriculture ministers to tackle this global problem

Food security worsening in areas suffering from civil conflict and adverse weather conditions

What a warming world means for agriculture and feeding the planet

Partnership enhances ability to assess changing forest and to estimate greenhouse gas emissions

Focus on agriculture, forestry and healthy soils can help push back "tipping point" for many poor people

First Pacific nation become party to international agreement on port state measures

Prizes honour outstanding contributions to global food security, nutrition and sustainable agriculture

Le développement durable est inséparable de la paix, souligne le Directeur général de la FAO à la Conférence de Paris sur le climat

Remote sensing satellite imagery will help to identify areas where water use produces poor crops

FAO and Milan to support the work of 116 cities that have signed on to a new urban food pact aimed at fighting hunger and waste, improving nutrition

In developing countries the agriculture sector bears much of the economic impact